I know very well that your means
are small and your heart is great, and that in your case generosity is
not prevented by limited resources. I therefore introduce to your
holiness the admirable and excellent Celestinianus, once enjoying much
wealth and prosperity, but now escaped from the hands of the barbarians
with nothing but freedom, and having no means of livelihood except the
mercy of men like your piety. And cares crowd round him, for travelling
with him are his wife, children and servants, whom he has brought with
him from no motives but those of humanity, for he cannot think it right
to dismiss them when they refuse to abandon him. I beg you of your
goodness to make him known to our wealthy citizens, for I think that,
after being informed by your holiness and seeing how soon prosperity
may fall away, they will bethink them of our common humanity, and, in
imitation of your magnanimity, will give him such help as they
can.